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Best Sellers
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Son of Hamas
- A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
- Written by: Mosab Hassan Yousef, Ron Brackin - contributor
- Narrated by: Mosab Hassan Yousef
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas.....
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....
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The Second World War
- Written by: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 39 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history....
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Weak coverage of certain battles, unless American.
- By Jordan on 2019-02-26
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The Only Plane in the Sky
- An Oral History of September 11, 2001
- Written by: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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The first comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001 - a panoramic narrative woven from the voices of Americans on the front lines of an unprecedented national trauma....
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Excellent
- By melt72 on 2023-08-22
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Inside Delta Force
- The Story of America’s Elite Counterterrorist Unit
- Written by: Command Sergeant Major Eric L. Haney
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Delta Force—the US Army’s most elite top-secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won’t hear about their heroics on CNN.....
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Authentic. Loved it!
- By engineermarko on 2019-05-10
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Say Nothing
- A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- Written by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible....
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Best book I’ve read in years
- By MadameX on 2019-10-26
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Son of Hamas
- A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
- Written by: Mosab Hassan Yousef, Ron Brackin - contributor
- Narrated by: Mosab Hassan Yousef
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas.....
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The End of Everything
- How Wars Descend into Annihilation
- Written by: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A New York Times-bestselling historian charts how and why societies from ancient Greece to the modern era chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time....
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The Second World War
- Written by: Antony Beevor
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 39 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history....
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Weak coverage of certain battles, unless American.
- By Jordan on 2019-02-26
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The Only Plane in the Sky
- An Oral History of September 11, 2001
- Written by: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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The first comprehensive oral history of September 11, 2001 - a panoramic narrative woven from the voices of Americans on the front lines of an unprecedented national trauma....
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Excellent
- By melt72 on 2023-08-22
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Inside Delta Force
- The Story of America’s Elite Counterterrorist Unit
- Written by: Command Sergeant Major Eric L. Haney
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 13 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Delta Force—the US Army’s most elite top-secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won’t hear about their heroics on CNN.....
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Authentic. Loved it!
- By engineermarko on 2019-05-10
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Say Nothing
- A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- Written by: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Matthew Blaney
- Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible....
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Best book I’ve read in years
- By MadameX on 2019-10-26
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The Jakarta Method
- Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
- Written by: Vincent Bevins
- Narrated by: Tim Paige
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the 20th century, eliminating the largest communist party outside China and the USSR and inspiring copycat terror programs....
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unconscious vs conscious bias
- By Wells Cushnie on 2021-09-11
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Days of Rage
- America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
- Written by: Bryan Burrough
- Narrated by: Ray Porter
- Length: 22 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From the best-selling author of Public Enemies and The Big Rich, an explosive account of the decade-long battle between the FBI and the homegrown revolutionary movements of the 1970s. The FBI combated these groups and others as nodes in a single revolutionary underground....
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Brilliant
- By MGS on 2021-08-10
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American Nightmare
- Facing the Challenge of Fascism
- Written by: Henry A. Giroux
- Narrated by: Mark Boyett
- Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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As white supremacy, ultra-nationalism, rabid misogyny, and anti-immigrant fervor coalesce, a new and uniquely American form of fascism looms. Could our current moment actually bring about the end of democracy in the United States? Listen to find out more....
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Going Beyond the Most Surface-Level Complaints
- By Jack on 2021-03-12
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The Longest War
- America and Al-Qaeda Since 9/11
- Written by: Peter L. Bergen
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 16 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Peter Bergen offers a comprehensive history of this war and its evolution, from the strategies devised in the wake of 9/11 to the fighting in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and beyond....
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Warriors of God
- Inside Hezbollah's Thirty-Year Struggle Against Israel
- Written by: Nicholas Blanford
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Hezbollah is the most powerful Islamist group operating in the Middle East today, and no other Western journalist has penetrated as deeply inside this secretive organization as Nicholas Blanford....
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Fascinating
- By Xyo on 2023-10-15
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The Peace
- A Warrior's Journey
- Written by: Romeo Dallaire
- Narrated by: Paul Gross
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Peace, Roméo Dallaire shows us the past, present and future of war through the prism of his own life....
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Japan's Infamous Unit 731
- Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
- Written by: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....
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Part good info, but mostly filler. Dissatisfied
- By Matthew on 2023-03-04
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My Hijacking
- A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering
- Written by: Martha Hodes
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In this moving and thought-provoking memoir, a historian offers a personal look at the fallibilities of memory and the lingering impact of trauma as she goes back fifty years to tell the story of being a passenger on an airliner hijacked by Palestinians in 1970....
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The Showman
- Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky
- Written by: Simon Shuster
- Narrated by: Daniel Gamburg
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed journalist Simon Shuster gives us the first inside account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team, who granted him unprecedented access....
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Close to home.
- By mila on 2024-03-13
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Battlegrounds
- The Fight to Defend the Free World
- Written by: H. R. McMaster
- Narrated by: H. R. McMaster
- Length: 17 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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From Lt. General H.R. McMaster, US Army, ret., the former national security advisor and author of the best-selling classic Dereliction of Duty, comes a bold and provocative re-examination of the most critical foreign policy and national security challenges that face the US....
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Great read
- By R.J. Keddie on 2022-02-17
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See No Evil
- The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism
- Written by: Robert Baer
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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A veteran case officer in the CIA's Directorate of Operations in the Middle East, Baer witnessed the rise of terrorism first hand and the CIA's inadequate response to it....
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Overreach
- The Inside Story of Putin’s War Against Ukraine
- Written by: Owen Matthews
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Journalist Owen Matthews dives deep into the war in Ukraine—from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol....
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Outstanding overview
- By Anonymous User on 2023-09-06
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Black Flags
- The Rise of ISIS
- Written by: Joby Warrick
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In a thrilling dramatic narrative, awarded the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread with the unwitting aid of two American presidents....
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Fantastic
- By Reese on 2024-03-27
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Why We Lost
- A General's Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
- Written by: Daniel Bolger
- Narrated by: Steve Coulter
- Length: 20 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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A high-ranking general's gripping insider account of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and how it all went wrong....
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Not too clear
- By Robert Hoskins on 2023-08-30
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Bloodlands
- Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
- Written by: Timothy Snyder
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history, in the time and place where they occurred: between Germany and Russia, when Hitler and Stalin both held power....
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Judgment at Tokyo
- World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
- Written by: Gary J. Bass
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 31 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction....
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The Infernal Machine
- A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
- Written by: Steven Johnson
- Narrated by: Steven Johnson
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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A sweeping account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat—a tale of fanaticism, forensic science, and dynamite from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map....
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Homegrown
- Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
- Written by: Jeffrey Toobin
- Narrated by: Jeffrey Toobin
- Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin reveals the definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrection....
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Outstanding historical connection
- By SWSRTBoots on 2024-01-11
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Black Ops
- The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior
- Written by: Ric Prado
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era....
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Excellent
- By METT Adventures on 2023-07-19
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American Radical
- Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
- Written by: Tamer Elnoury, Kevin Maurer
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the inside....
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Great book
- By ka06 on 2022-08-20
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Code over Country
- The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six
- Written by: Matthew Cole
- Narrated by: Braden Wright
- Length: 12 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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A hard-hitting exposé of SEAL Team 6, the US military’s best-known brand, that reveals how the Navy SEALs were formed, then sacrificed, in service of American empire....
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SEAL hate book
- By kamPy on 2023-11-28
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Night of Power
- The Betrayal of the Middle East
- Written by: Robert Fisk
- Length: 22 hrs
- Unabridged
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An extraordinary chronicle of Fisk's trademark rigorous journalism, historical analysis and eyewitness reporting. Fully immersed in the Middle East and critical of the West's ongoing interference, Fisk was committed to uncovering complex and uncomfortable truths.
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Trust the Plan
- The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America
- Written by: Will Sommer
- Narrated by: Joe Knezevich
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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A journalist who has followed the rise of QAnon explains what it is, how it has gained a mainstream following among Republican lawmakers and ordinary citizens, the threat it poses to democracy, and how we can reach those who have embraced the conspiracy and are disseminating its lies....
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Scary
- By NEB on 2023-11-18
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First Platoon
- A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance
- Written by: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A powerful story of war in our time, of love of country, the experience of tragedy, and a platoon at the center of it all....
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Very interesting.
- By Christa on 2021-04-16
New Releases
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Final Verdict
- The Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century
- Written by: Tobias Buck
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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The gripping narrative of one of the last Nazi criminal trials in Germany—that of Bruno Dey, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard charged with aiding the murder of more than 5,000 people—and a larger exploration of Germany's reckoning with the Holocaust, from silence to memory to today's rising tide of fascism and antisemitism.
Written by: Tobias Buck
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Terrorists on the Border and in Our Country
- Written by: Charles A. Marino
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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A nationally recognized security expert reveals the REAL Terrorist threat from the U.S. Southern Border and already INSIDE America. Terrorists on the Border and in Our Country reveals how radical, left-wing, liberal politicians and woke, progressive, "defund-the-police," and "stop-the-wall," nation-wrecking policies caused this crisis and the steps the country must take to combat crime, protect the homeland and its citizens and stop the growing existential challenge to American freedoms and way of life.
Written by: Charles A. Marino
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The Peace
- A Warrior's Journey
- Written by: Romeo Dallaire
- Narrated by: Paul Gross
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Peace, Roméo Dallaire shows us the past, present and future of war through the prism of his own life. Trained in classic warfare during the Cold War era of mutual deterrence, Dallaire in good faith commanded the UN’s peacekeeping mission for Rwanda in 1994, only to see the country abandoned and descend into the hell of genocide. The battered, tortured warrior who emerged from that catastrophe grew determined to help repair the new world disorder—to prevent genocide, abolish the use of child soldiers, and find ways to intervene in, even prevent, conflicts in defence of humanity.
Written by: Romeo Dallaire
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The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East
- Zones of Violence
- Written by: Laura Robson
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Middle East today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria, a highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Iraqi state paralyzed by the emergence of class- and region-inflected sectarian identifications, a Lebanon teetering on the edge of collapse from the pressures of its huge numbers of refugees and its sect-bound political system, and the rise of a wide variety of Islamist paramilitary organizations seeking to operate outside all these states.
Written by: Laura Robson
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American Mother
- Written by: Colum McCann, Diane Foley
- Narrated by: Colum McCann, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kristen Rock
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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It has been eleven years since Diane Foley’s son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped in northern Syria, and nearly ten since that day in August 2014 when she would learn that he had been murdered by ISIS in a public beheading that would ricochet in video around the world. A whole decade. Time rushes past. And yet, for Diane, that moment is unending. In American Mother, legendary author Colum McCann tells Diane’s story as she recalls the months of his captivity, the efforts made to bring him home and the days following his death.
Written by: Colum McCann, and others
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Error of Judgement
- The Birmingham Bombings and the Scandal That Shook Britain
- Written by: Chris Mullin
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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On the evening of 21st November 1974, bombs planted by the IRA in two crowded Birmingham pubs exploded, killing 21 people and injuring at least 170. Within a day of the explosion, six men - Paddy Hill, Gerry Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, Billy Power, Johnny Walker and Hughie Callaghan - were arrested and charged. All were found guilty. Methodically, with total clarity and a tone that is both gripping and impassioned, then investigative journalist Mullin unpicked every detail of the case.
Written by: Chris Mullin
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Final Verdict
- The Holocaust on Trial in the 21st Century
- Written by: Tobias Buck
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 10 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The gripping narrative of one of the last Nazi criminal trials in Germany—that of Bruno Dey, a 93-year-old former concentration camp guard charged with aiding the murder of more than 5,000 people—and a larger exploration of Germany's reckoning with the Holocaust, from silence to memory to today's rising tide of fascism and antisemitism.
Written by: Tobias Buck
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Terrorists on the Border and in Our Country
- Written by: Charles A. Marino
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
- Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
A nationally recognized security expert reveals the REAL Terrorist threat from the U.S. Southern Border and already INSIDE America. Terrorists on the Border and in Our Country reveals how radical, left-wing, liberal politicians and woke, progressive, "defund-the-police," and "stop-the-wall," nation-wrecking policies caused this crisis and the steps the country must take to combat crime, protect the homeland and its citizens and stop the growing existential challenge to American freedoms and way of life.
Written by: Charles A. Marino
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The Peace
- A Warrior's Journey
- Written by: Romeo Dallaire
- Narrated by: Paul Gross
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
In The Peace, Roméo Dallaire shows us the past, present and future of war through the prism of his own life. Trained in classic warfare during the Cold War era of mutual deterrence, Dallaire in good faith commanded the UN’s peacekeeping mission for Rwanda in 1994, only to see the country abandoned and descend into the hell of genocide. The battered, tortured warrior who emerged from that catastrophe grew determined to help repair the new world disorder—to prevent genocide, abolish the use of child soldiers, and find ways to intervene in, even prevent, conflicts in defence of humanity.
Written by: Romeo Dallaire
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The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East
- Zones of Violence
- Written by: Laura Robson
- Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
The Middle East today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria, a highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Iraqi state paralyzed by the emergence of class- and region-inflected sectarian identifications, a Lebanon teetering on the edge of collapse from the pressures of its huge numbers of refugees and its sect-bound political system, and the rise of a wide variety of Islamist paramilitary organizations seeking to operate outside all these states.
Written by: Laura Robson
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American Mother
- Written by: Colum McCann, Diane Foley
- Narrated by: Colum McCann, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kristen Rock
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
It has been eleven years since Diane Foley’s son, the American journalist James Foley, was kidnapped in northern Syria, and nearly ten since that day in August 2014 when she would learn that he had been murdered by ISIS in a public beheading that would ricochet in video around the world. A whole decade. Time rushes past. And yet, for Diane, that moment is unending. In American Mother, legendary author Colum McCann tells Diane’s story as she recalls the months of his captivity, the efforts made to bring him home and the days following his death.
Written by: Colum McCann, and others
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Error of Judgement
- The Birmingham Bombings and the Scandal That Shook Britain
- Written by: Chris Mullin
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 14 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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Performance
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Story
On the evening of 21st November 1974, bombs planted by the IRA in two crowded Birmingham pubs exploded, killing 21 people and injuring at least 170. Within a day of the explosion, six men - Paddy Hill, Gerry Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, Billy Power, Johnny Walker and Hughie Callaghan - were arrested and charged. All were found guilty. Methodically, with total clarity and a tone that is both gripping and impassioned, then investigative journalist Mullin unpicked every detail of the case.
Written by: Chris Mullin